[conspire] Let's look at fluview

[Ruben Safir]

Almost as if one cue, our department is in the news today


https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/ive-worked-the-coronavirus-front-line-and-i-say-its-time-to-start-opening-up/

Ive worked the coronavirus front line  and I say its time to start
opening up 


On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 07:30:47AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 4/27/20 7:09 PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
> > ending April 11, and how different that is from prior flu seasons, even the really bad one two years ago.
> 
> 1968 was the last really bad one as far as I know.  I've been doing this
> for work for the last month, and I sort of petered out on this at this
> point.  I pretty much wrote the points I wanted to make on
> brooklyn-living and nothing that this virus has done has suprised me or
> been off my back of the envelope predictions, even before I was sort of
> drafted into work.  This virus will reach, or actually already has
> reached, saturation.  They will not get a vaccination in time because
> they don't care.  If they did they would be running thousands of tests a
> week, not a dozen.  Drug trials are riddled with cronie politics, as it
> always is, and we see obvious inappropraite actions in this regard.  The
> public messaging is constant hysteria.  Even in the worst case, this
> virus isn't, or shouldn't be, a civilization destroying and yet here we
> are...
> 
> When at work, I've noticed two kinds of attitude.  Hysterical crazy
> attiitudes by people who can't live without a cellphone attached to
> their hips, hanging on every word of every politiician, and that had
> never seen a real epidemic, and those of us who lived and worked through
> the early HIV epidmenic, who are much less excited.  Most of us are old
> at this point.
> 
> You can bet your tuchas if this epidemeic actually was having people
> drop dead in the streets, like Anthrax, we wouldn't be having long press
> conferences, and every bodega in the city open selling potato chips,
> liquor and cigerettes.  They would be isolating disease active disease
> pockets with a complete shutdown using real maps and real cops, without
> notice or warning.  As for when this will be over, I expect in about a
> year and a  half, which sort of makes no sense because I think we are
> saturated, but the lock down is not going to make this virus just go
> away.  It will likely mutate twice, and everything we do seems to be
> begging to make it more virulent.
> 
> One thing I am certain of, the idea that if we all stayed locked up for
> the next year and the virus will just go away, that is not happening.
> You better sacrifice your lambs and put blood on you door post.  You
> will be luckier.
> 
> If your right, however, Deidre, we are all going to die anyway.  It is
> not what viruses that have high R0 values generally do, since it is self
> defeating.  But without immunity, everybody dies.
> 
> If that is the case, I want to see Hanmilton this week and catch a
> really big fish.
> 
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, 
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013